To find books and e-books on Computer Science you can search the Library Catalog by keyword, author, title, or subject. If you don't find what you're looking for the first time, don't give up! Search again using alternate words, different spellings, or a shortened version of your search term.

Alternately, you can browse for what you need on the bookshelves on the 2nd floor of the library, aisle 2, using the following call numbers QA75.5 – 76.95.

Important books in this subject area are:

• Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
  
  
  • The Hutchinson dictionary of computing and the internet
    Available through Netlibrary, 2004
    
    
  • English dictionary of computing
    Available through Ebrary, 2000
    
    
  • Encyclopedia of human computer interaction
    Available through Netlibrary, 2006
    
    
  • Encyclopedia of computer science, 4th ed.
    QA76.15 .E48 2000 in Reference
    
    
    
• Handbooks, manuals, etc.
  
  
  
  • The computer science and engineering handbook
    QA76 .C57315 1997
    
    
  • Algorithms and theory of computation handbook
    QA76.9.A43 A43 1999
  
  
  • The guide to computing literature
    Available through the ACM Digital Library

If you're attempting to access an e-book in one of UNO's databases from off-campus, when you click on a database name, you'll be taken to a screen that looks like this. Follow the directions to log-in. If you don't know your PIN or have never set up a PIN, click "I forgot my PIN" and a PIN will be emailed your UNO email account.

If you can't find the book you're looking for, try our Interlibrary Loan service! Request the book through our iLLiad system and we'll get the book from another library for you for free.